On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 20:13 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Nathaniel Hall wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am having problems with getting permissions correct using my fstab. I > > am mounting to a Windows file server from a Core 4 box. I am able to > > connect to the share and mess with files, but permissions are not > > correct. I do not run as a root user, so when I write a file it is > > owned by root. I would like it to be owned by my username so that I do > > not have to change the owner when I want to edit the file. > > > > Here is my /etc/fstab > > //server/share /media/server/share cifs > > credentials=/home/user/.smbcredentials/user.cred,rw,user 0 0 > > > > Does anybody have any suggestions? > > > Try adding umask=0. > > //server/share /media/server/share cifs > credentials=/home/user/.smbcredentials/user.cred,rw,user,umask=0 0 0 Isn't that supposed to be umask=000 This is what I do on a CLI mount -t cifs -o username=xxx,password=yyy,uid=500 //server/share /mnt/pt -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:36:11 up 2 days, 5:36, 4 users, load average: 0.15, 0.61, 0.72
